2020.2
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PrintShop Mail Connect 2020.2
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Preferences
- Clean-up Service preferences
- Database Connection preferences
- Editing preferences
- Email preferences
- Emmet preferences
- Engines preferences
- Hardware for Digital Signing preferences
- Language preferences
- Logging preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Print preferences
- Project Wizards preferences
- Save preferences
- Scripting preferences
- Engines preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Known Issues
- Uninstalling
- General information
- The Designer
- Designer basics
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing content
- Preferences
- Clean-up Service preferences
- Database Connection preferences
- Editing preferences
- Email preferences
- Emmet preferences
- Engines preferences
- Hardware for Digital Signing preferences
- Language preferences
- Logging preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Print preferences
- Project Wizards preferences
- Save preferences
- Scripting preferences
- Writing your own scripts
- Script types
- Creating a new Standard Script
- Writing a script
- Setting the scope of a script
- Managing scripts
- Testing scripts
- Optimizing scripts
- The script flow: when scripts run
- Selectors in Connect
- Loading a snippet via a script
- Loading content using a server's API
- Using scripts in Dynamic Tables
- Control Scripts
- Post Pagination Scripts
- Translating templates
- Designer User Interface
- Designer Script API
- Generating output
- Print Manager
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes
- OL PrintShop Mail ConnectRelease Notes 2020.2.1
- Previous Releases
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2020.1
- License Update Required for Upgrade to Connect 2019.x
- Backup before Upgrading
- Overview
- OL Connect 2019.2 Enhancements
- Connect 2019.2 Designer Improvements
- Connect 2019.2 Output Improvements
- Print Manager Improvements
- Known Issues
- License Update Required for Upgrade to Connect 2019.1
- Overview
- OL Connect 2019.1 Enhancements
- Connect 2019.1 Designer Updates
- Connect 2019.1 Output updates
- Print Wizard and Preset Wizard Improvements
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 2018.2.1 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.2 Enhancements
- Connect 2018.2 Designer Updates
- Connect 2018.2 Output updates
- Print Wizard and Preset Wizard Improvements
- Connect 2018.2 Print Manager updates
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 2018.1.6 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.5 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.4 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.3 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.2 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.1 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1 General Enhancements
- Connect 2018.1 Designer Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1 Output Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1 Print Manager Enhancements/Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.8 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Performance Related Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Print Manager Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.7.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.6.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.5 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.4.2 Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 New Features and Enhancements
- Connect 1.4.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
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Selectors for variable data, for example: @Name@, @Amount@. You will want to
replace these by the names of actual fields in your data. See "Variable Data" on
page341.
The Wizard opens the Print section. You can add text and other elements; see "Content
elements" on page189. See "Styling and formatting" on page286 to learn how to style
elements..
Print context
The Print context is the folder in the Designer that can contain one or more Print templates.
Print templates (also called Print sections), are part of the Print context. They are meant to be
printed directly to a printer or a printer stream/spool file, or to a PDF file (see "Generating Print
output" on page949).
The Print context can also be added to Email output as a PDF attachment; see "Generating
Email output" on page973.
When generating output from the Print context, each of the Print sections is added to the output
document, one after the other in sequence, for each record.
Creating the Print context
You can start creating a Print template with a Wizard (see "Creating a Print template with a
Wizard" on page124), or add the Print context to an existing template (see "Adding a context"
on page117).
Tip
Editing PDF files in the Designer is not possible, but when they're used as a section's
background, you can add text and other elements, such as a barcode, to them.
The quickest way to create a Print template based on a PDFfile is to right-click the PDF
file in the Windows Explorer and select Enhance with Connect. Alternatively, start
creating a new Print template with a Wizard, using the PDF-based Print template (see
"Creating a Print template with a Wizard" on page124).
To use a PDF file as background image for an existing section, see "Using a PDF file or
other image as background" on page140.
When a Print template is created, the following happens:
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